Hello eBook sure do-follow is the way to go but rather than “looking” specifically for those blogs/sites/ may I suggest you leave comments where applicable. I can guarantee you most people if interested in what you have to say will click on your link. What it boils down to, is technical is good, crossing your T’s & dotting your I’s making sure you are doing everything you can as an SEO provider to help and assist you clients. Now that social has become mainstream on line then make sure you are getting as much juice as they can offer.
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Hey Terry, you are right! Both XML & feed burners are benefits. We have had this discussion at the end of the day excellent content is your best friend if you want quality links.
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To check if a link you leave at some site is DoFollow you can download
the NoDoFollow Plugin for Firefox. It can help you immensely in building
quality DoFollow Links.

Indeed, I’d like to see how these white-hat SEO’s are creating links for their clients without submitting to directories/social bookmarking sites. Sure there are numerous free and white-hat links out there, but for the most part you’ll have a client that wants a stupidly difficult generic term on page 1 for less than the price of a tank of petrol… by tomorrow.

Directory links are for the most part entirely legitimate and once you’ve weeded out the crap directories from the list they can be a powerful resource. Unfortunately people tend to submit to 8000 directories and end up listed next to some rather toxic keywords negating the benefits from any link.

The Dentist thing is due to the fact that I built my business based on dental practice SEO. That and I like to think it’s a good gimick haha.
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Hey SEO Dentist, needless to say change & SEO is constant. Add Google’s mambo dance, applications, etc. and you have one hell of a time keeping up. Look the bottom line is we have to give our clients visibility in the SERp’s. As much as I would like to think there is a written rule for SEO discipline there aren’t. Well there are, but so many are conflicting that it would depend on what works for you. Another thing I advocate is listing with directories. I can hear optimizers pulling their hair out and saying “Ooo no black hat, cloaking, voodoo, blah blah blah”. In some cases it can help tremendously so who are they to knock it? At the end of the day if it works and you are ethically satisfied that you are keeping within Google/Bing/Yahoo parameters then as far as I’m concerned ROCK ON.
In conclusion what’s up with “dentist” in your name? SEO dentist sounds painful lolol! 🙂
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Social Media has allowed webmasters to distribute their content on a live medium, but this still isn’t enough. Sure you can have 100’s of retweets on one particular topic, but out of those 100, you’ll be lucky to have 1 link to you, and more often than not because your article is popular you’ll just end up having someone spin it and distribute it themselves.

Times are tough, and that doesn’t mean we have to resort to guerilla tactics when link building, but most niches are already being attacked by numerous professionals so your site needs to offer something new and entice a user into participating.
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I had to throw my two cents in. 🙂

Does a blog “guarantee” inclusion into the search engine indexes? Only if 9.5 times out of 10 is considered a guarantee. Can we say for sure that 100% of the blogs out there outperform 100% of the sites out there in terms of indexing and crawling? No. What we can say is that it is highly likely a blog page will be crawled and indexed before a site page.

Why? Because blogs are “designed” to notify the search engines when a new post goes up. Because search engines are “designed” to crawl blogs more often. Nothing ever does as it’s designed 100% of the time, but it’s more likely than not.

My 2 cents
.-= Jahnelle Pittman recently posted: Using Google Web Analytics to Check Your SEO Campaign- Keywords =-.

Kathy, I want to agree with you… but I can’t. I’m amazed at the traffic we get on our personal blog for specific keywords. I’m not sure about here on SEP, but I can assure you, the blog gets a certain amount of traffic from specific keywords hitting high on the SERPs. I can say with a large amount of accuracy that it has nothing to do with links we send out or links given to us; especially since the blogs rank on their own initially – before I send them out on social networks.

I am a huge advocate of Twitter, other social networks and yes, word of mouth. However, I will also argue that specific keywords will bring you another aspect of traffic that you may know nothing about. Granted, link building is part of the whole “magic”, but it has to work hand in hand with other aspects of your online presence.

Also, let me add, that SE’s don’t treat blogs the same way they do site pages. Blogs are considered dynamic, changing content, and so – quite simply – index faster, rank higher and provide traffic more quickly than site pages do. A blog is like an instant hand shake to the world; what it does for your business once it’s indexed… well, that’s when content quality really begins to count.
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